Plush Toy Site for Review

Veins · #1 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 12:24 AM

Please review this site - www.plushtoysafari.com

It's been up for a month and there are very few visitors. In fact, some days, there are none. I believe Yahoo, MSN and Google have all indexed it. It's just not getting noticed yet.

Need help.

Thanks...

P.S. I'm working on link exchanging, article writing, blogging and other types of advertising, but it's slow going.

jgravelle · #2 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Veins

Please review this site - www.plushtoysafari.com

Well, you got yourself a top-two (as of this note) position in these Google results:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22kid+animal+costumes

It's a start...

-jjg

bj · #3 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 06:21 PM

Running your url through the link popularity checker tells me you have a LOT of work to do yet to get noticed.

Site here:
www.widexl.com/remote/link-popularity/index.html

First of all, you're showing different numbers with and without the www. so you have to do some .htaccess magic to fix that, so links to you all direct to the same place in the eyes of the search engines.

Open notepad and copy this code into the window:

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.plushtoysafari.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://plushtoysafari.com/$1 [r=301,L]

Save the file as .htaccess and upload it into your toplevel directory.

Since Yahoo seems most accurate, I'll use Yahoo's numbers as an example (you have nothing showing for goog backlinks whatsoever.) For plushtoysafari.com you're only showing 1 backlink, while www.plushtoysafari.com is showing 6. Sites that do well in the SERPs show thousands of backlinks.

I've written two articles that may get you started in the right direction.
The Basics of Search Engine Marketing

The Best Websites are an Ongoing Conversation

gordons · #4 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 05:59 AM

why not set up an affiliate scheme, it will get your site noticed very quickly and will also bring the sales

lolmom · #5 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 02:54 PM

Thank all of you for your help and suggestions.

I'm signing in under my name instead of my husbands. My question is for bj.

You mentioned .htaccess...and you gave this code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.plushtoysafari.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://plushtoysafari.com/$1 [r=301,L]

Will this point the search engines to the www or the url without that? I'd like the engines to point to the www and I'm not sure how to read that in your suggested code.

Thanks again!

bj · #6 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 03:00 PM

No, that will send all www. people into the site without the www, which is the better way to handle it. You can do it either way, but www is arbitrary anyway.

The more important part of the equation is to have the redirect, no matter which way it points, so that your stats aren't split into two, and so that ANY link pointing to your domain, whether it's specified with or without the www, will count the same weight.

I also forgot to mention that that's the code for linux/unix flavors of servers. It needs to be done differently on a windoze server, and I don't use them.